Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1887-03-12
RECORD OF CONGRESS.

ing XLVIIIth Congress,
The total number Of laws enacted was
approximately, l,43l, of which l,U93 origi-
mated in the House and 3}o in the Senate.
Two hundred and siXty-four OF these be-
came laws by the expiration Of the consti-
tutional ten days limitation. Forty bills
failed to become laws OWING to the ad-
journmcnt of Congress, nine Of them
at the close Of the first session.
There were 1872 bills vetoed by the
President, or twenty-one more than had
been vetoed from the foundation Of the
Government down to the beginning Of this
Congress. OF the vetoed bills ninety four
originated in the House and thirty-nine in
the Senate. But one private bill, that
granting a pension to Joseph Romciser,
and one public bill for the erection of
Government building at Dayton, o., sue
ceeded in passing both houses over the |
Presidents veto, although several others |
obtained the requisite two-thirds vote IN |
the Senate only to fail in the House.
The death roll of this Congress- was also |
an extraordinary one comprising the un-
precedeuted number Of thirteen names in
the House and Senate They are those OF
Vice President Hendricks, President OF the
Senate; Senators Miller, of California;
Pike. of New Hampshire; Logan, OF Hi
nois; and Representatives Hahn, of Loui-
siana; Arnott Beach and Dowdney, of New
York; Price, of Wisconsin,; Cole, Of Mary
land: Elwood, of Illinois, Duncan, of
Pennsylvania; and Rankin, of Wisconsin,
HOUSE MEASURES ENACTED.
OF the l,053 House bills which became
laws 275 were of more or less public nat
urc OF the remaining rs bills granting
pensions or relief to specially designated
| persvns), l56 became laws without the ap-
proval Of the President The following is
! a list of more important House bills which
| have become laws:
| To forfeit the Atlantic & Pacific railroad land
| grant: to increase the pension OF widows and
| dependent relatives from eight dollars to twelve
! dollars per month; the Dngley shipping bill;
! TO pension the Mexican war veterans: the
! Oeomargarine act; to authorize the transfer OF
| Highwood tract, near Chicago to the United
| States for military purposes; to protect
! homestead settlers within railroad lin
! its: TO enable National banking assO-
| ciatlons to increase their capital stock
and change their name and location; TO
forfeit the Backbone land grant TO reduce
| the fees on domestic money orders for sums
! less than five dollars; to extend the immediate
delivery system: TO provide for closing up the
business OF the Court Of Alabama Claims; ie
establish additional life-saving stations; for the
| construction OF additional lighthouses: extend
| ing the free-delvery system TO towns OF
| 1000 inhabitants; for the sale OF the Chero-
kce reservation in Arkansas 10 amend the
statutes so as 10 require brewers 10 give bonds
for three times their estimated monthly tax;
for the issue OF postal notes in sums less than
a. 3.li, 20, 40 for r-r %
tobacco cigars and snuff; to restrict ownership
of lands in the Territories to American citizens;
TO prohibit Government employees from hiring
or contracting out the labor Of United States
prisoners; to amend the act prohibiting the i'm.
portation and immigration Of foreigners under
labor contracts providing for the location Of
a branch soldiers homo west OF the Rocky
Mountains; for the relief Of the Jeanette
sufferers; amendatory OF the act dividing ILL.,
nois into judicial districts and providing FOR the
holding of terms of court at PEORIA relative
to contested elections; to loan articles in the
Government departments TO the Minnesota
Industrial Exposition: to regulate the juris
diction of United States Circuit Courts
for the adjustment of land grants and
the forfeiture OF unearned lands, TO add
"A number Of cities TO the list OF Ma
tional bank reserve cities and 10 allow
part Of the reserve 10 be kept in cities other
than New York: for the rclefot settlers on the
public lands in Kansas and Nebraska to provide
for bringing suits against the Government; fol
the erection Of public buildings at Los Angeles
Cal, Springfield. Mo, El Paso, Tex" santa Fe
n NJ, and Jefferson Tex; TO increase the limit
OF cost Of public buildings at Peoria, ILL.,, Gal
weston. Tex, Clarksburg, w. Va, kcokuk
Ia, Chattanooga, Tenn, Detroit, Mich; for The
completion or Improvement of public buildings
at Dallas, Tex. Des Moines, Ia, Jackson
Tenn. and Hannibal, Mo-; for the purchase of
additional ground for the building at For
Wayne, Ind; for the purchase oil site Tor 4
Federal building at San Francisco.
Forty Hons, Joint resolutions became
,o,ra tho r,,ncinoI ones beinr as follows
49,. .i,,,,. =, 7 ,,,o, q, ,,,l,,
blI.'l.iis Va. ,,,.,, ibr, ,,,hori,
ut 80 % W .,,o ~ ,,s al,
l'ls 'nV y. 10, xor,h
u..e I'.,'.l H Uror,;,,,. 10 outbori7a IN,
S.H N.'S .Nt''s VI ." ,,,,o nat,irr, o,,
I'esuent 10 p.os0, St ,.i,,,, tstor,,,,, y, "a
,,a u"t,'e o,,,bnr,ir,, an investigation n
m''',"l ,,a o,o,,r, ~ no pac6
1hT uOCN'' -'N N'''0>''
; ,,,.s,.,rs rx,crrn
'hNN'" .,.,,-,',.,..
Ot the total hunioer os oi'I9 which pass.
: the Senate 32O became laws ultluulus 'l
of public and 2J3 OF strlcty prlNau
nature. The following is list OF the NOR
important:
l The Presidential Succession bill; the Inter
l State Commerce Dill Tor tne feurement uL
recohage OF 'he 'raHs uo,,", Ina u in say
eoTns oliI' iUa Va. .or,ooi ,bs Tenurs.of-O -O
ei"i'S " AZ in.naase ,he ANIMAL annronriatio
, tsr tho militia. To establish AGRICULTURAL cy
/, nnr,r,ept stations. 10 legalize the incol
poration Of trades unions; authorizin
,hs transmissien Of weather repor,
= ,hrou,h the mails free OF postage: TO il
!, .rasse tho nension for loss of an arm or leg:
A ,ndemnify tho chinese for losses sustained h
,ha PnnI, Snrings wv. Tl riot: for the reli,
otrovas Colnrado oregon. Nebraska, Cal
" tornta Kansas Nevada. washington Territoi
and Idaho, for the holding OF terms of II
d Ifnt,a, states Courts at Raw city. Mich; to r,
= move the charge Of dcsertion fro
:. IN, records of soldiers who enlist,
without having received discharges
account of first enlistment; TO amer
' the law relating to patents, trade marks NJ
IS copyrights; TO bridge the Mississippi river
1t ST. Louis; to prohibit the importation
opium; for the erection OF public buildings
San Antonio, Tex, Houston, Tex, Oshkos
ID Wis, Fort Smith, Ark, Owenscorough' N!
i and Milwaukee, Wis; to increase the limit
IL cost for public buildings at oxford, Mss al
Al. R1Ett nj